Jane Bailey Gatewood, known as Jennie, was the daughter of William Bailey (ca. 1769-1846) and his wife Jane Patterson Bailey of Anson Co., NC. Her exact birth year is unknown but the consensus of census records suggests a birth date in the mid-1790s. Her father was a slave-holding planter of local importance.
About 1814 Jennie married Philip Gatewood (b. 1794), son of another Anson County planter. The couple settled on a farm near Morven and together started a family that ultimately numbered twelve children: Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Griffin B. (b. ca. 1817), William (b. 1818), Thomas Bailey (b. ca. 1819), Daniel M. (b. 1826), Sarah A. (b. 1828), Burrell (b. ca. 1830), Judith L. (b. 1832), Samuel B. (b.1834), Margaret (b. ca. 1836), Rosa T. (b. 1837), and Louisa (b. 1838).
Life in Antebellum Anson County was coarse and sometimes brutal. Philip Gatewood was no gentleman. Contemporary accounts describe him as slovenly, ill-mannered, illiterate, intemperate, and a drunk. On May 5, 1839 Gatewood allegedly murdered his brother-in-law Thomas P. Bradley with a shotgun in Bradley's cornfield outside of Wadesboro ("The Carolina Watchman," Salisbury, NC, May 17, 1839, p.3). The subsequent inquest speculated that Gatewood had likely fled to the West. In any case, he disappeared from Anson Co., abandoning Jennie to face the scandal and raise their children alone. To her credit, she kept the family together on the farm, helped not only by the older children, but also by an increasing number of enslaved people. In her later years Jennie was cared for by her unmarried eldest daughter Emeline (Emmie). She died at her home in the Gulledge Twp. in Anson Co. in the latter part half of 1880. Given the family tragedy, it is perhaps telling that Jennie's grave marker unapologetically declares her to be the "WIFE OF PHILIP GATEWOOD."
About 1814 Jennie married Philip Gatewood (b. 1794), son of another Anson County planter. The couple settled on a farm near Morven and together started a family that ultimately numbered twelve children: Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Griffin B. (b. ca. 1817), William (b. 1818), Thomas Bailey (b. ca. 1819), Daniel M. (b. 1826), Sarah A. (b. 1828), Burrell (b. ca. 1830), Judith L. (b. 1832), Samuel B. (b.1834), Margaret (b. ca. 1836), Rosa T. (b. 1837), and Louisa (b. 1838).
Life in Antebellum Anson County was coarse and sometimes brutal. Philip Gatewood was no gentleman. Contemporary accounts describe him as slovenly, ill-mannered, illiterate, intemperate, and a drunk. On May 5, 1839 Gatewood allegedly murdered his brother-in-law Thomas P. Bradley with a shotgun in Bradley's cornfield outside of Wadesboro ("The Carolina Watchman," Salisbury, NC, May 17, 1839, p.3). The subsequent inquest speculated that Gatewood had likely fled to the West. In any case, he disappeared from Anson Co., abandoning Jennie to face the scandal and raise their children alone. To her credit, she kept the family together on the farm, helped not only by the older children, but also by an increasing number of enslaved people. In her later years Jennie was cared for by her unmarried eldest daughter Emeline (Emmie). She died at her home in the Gulledge Twp. in Anson Co. in the latter part half of 1880. Given the family tragedy, it is perhaps telling that Jennie's grave marker unapologetically declares her to be the "WIFE OF PHILIP GATEWOOD."
Jane Bailey Gatewood, known as Jennie, was the daughter of William Bailey (ca. 1769-1846) and his wife Jane Patterson Bailey of Anson Co., NC. Her exact birth year is unknown but the consensus of census records suggests a birth date in the mid-1790s. Her father was a slave-holding planter of local importance.
About 1814 Jennie married Philip Gatewood (b. 1794), son of another Anson County planter. The couple settled on a farm near Morven and together started a family that ultimately numbered twelve children: Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Griffin B. (b. ca. 1817), William (b. 1818), Thomas Bailey (b. ca. 1819), Daniel M. (b. 1826), Sarah A. (b. 1828), Burrell (b. ca. 1830), Judith L. (b. 1832), Samuel B. (b.1834), Margaret (b. ca. 1836), Rosa T. (b. 1837), and Louisa (b. 1838).
Life in Antebellum Anson County was coarse and sometimes brutal. Philip Gatewood was no gentleman. Contemporary accounts describe him as slovenly, ill-mannered, illiterate, intemperate, and a drunk. On May 5, 1839 Gatewood allegedly murdered his brother-in-law Thomas P. Bradley with a shotgun in Bradley's cornfield outside of Wadesboro ("The Carolina Watchman," Salisbury, NC, May 17, 1839, p.3). The subsequent inquest speculated that Gatewood had likely fled to the West. In any case, he disappeared from Anson Co., abandoning Jennie to face the scandal and raise their children alone. To her credit, she kept the family together on the farm, helped not only by the older children, but also by an increasing number of enslaved people. In her later years Jennie was cared for by her unmarried eldest daughter Emeline (Emmie). She died at her home in the Gulledge Twp. in Anson Co. in the latter part half of 1880. Given the family tragedy, it is perhaps telling that Jennie's grave marker unapologetically declares her to be the "WIFE OF PHILIP GATEWOOD."
About 1814 Jennie married Philip Gatewood (b. 1794), son of another Anson County planter. The couple settled on a farm near Morven and together started a family that ultimately numbered twelve children: Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Griffin B. (b. ca. 1817), William (b. 1818), Thomas Bailey (b. ca. 1819), Daniel M. (b. 1826), Sarah A. (b. 1828), Burrell (b. ca. 1830), Judith L. (b. 1832), Samuel B. (b.1834), Margaret (b. ca. 1836), Rosa T. (b. 1837), and Louisa (b. 1838).
Life in Antebellum Anson County was coarse and sometimes brutal. Philip Gatewood was no gentleman. Contemporary accounts describe him as slovenly, ill-mannered, illiterate, intemperate, and a drunk. On May 5, 1839 Gatewood allegedly murdered his brother-in-law Thomas P. Bradley with a shotgun in Bradley's cornfield outside of Wadesboro ("The Carolina Watchman," Salisbury, NC, May 17, 1839, p.3). The subsequent inquest speculated that Gatewood had likely fled to the West. In any case, he disappeared from Anson Co., abandoning Jennie to face the scandal and raise their children alone. To her credit, she kept the family together on the farm, helped not only by the older children, but also by an increasing number of enslaved people. In her later years Jennie was cared for by her unmarried eldest daughter Emeline (Emmie). She died at her home in the Gulledge Twp. in Anson Co. in the latter part half of 1880. Given the family tragedy, it is perhaps telling that Jennie's grave marker unapologetically declares her to be the "WIFE OF PHILIP GATEWOOD."
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JENNIE BAILEY / WIFE OF / PHILIP / GATEWOOD / DIED 1880
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